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nounthe world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa
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- black of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin
- sudan a region of northern Africa to the south of the Sahara and Libyan deserts; extends from the Atlantic to the Red Sea
- niger a landlocked republic in West Africa; gained independence from France in 1960; most of the country is dominated by the Sahara Desert
- ful a family of languages of the Fulani of West Africa and used as a lingua franca in the sub-Saharan regions from Senegal to Chad; the best known of the West African languages
- saharan of or relating to or located in the Sahara Desert
- saharan a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad
- fulani a family of languages of the Fulani of West Africa and used as a lingua franca in the sub-Saharan regions from Senegal to Chad; the best known of the West African languages
- tuareg a member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara
- mauritania a country in northwestern Africa with a provisional military government; achieved independence from France in 1960; largely western Sahara Desert
- fula a family of languages of the Fulani of West Africa and used as a lingua franca in the sub-Saharan regions from Senegal to Chad; the best known of the West African languages